Jihun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒihən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jihun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 454as 지원(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 558Kas Jihoon
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 839K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jihun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 839K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named 지원, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jihoon in US United States, AU Australia, KP North Korea and 2 more and 지훈 in KR South Korea, MO Macao.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jihun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #5 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 454 | 254 | 지훈 | 118 |
| KP North Korea | #731 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Jihoon | 8 |
| US United States | — | 596as Jihoon | 1 in 558K | 570 | Jihoon | 138 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Jihun | 6 |
| MO Macao | #30 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | 지훈 | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 469K | 1 | Jihoon | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 839K | — | Jihoon | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 18 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 518K | — | Jihoon | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jihun is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The Ceyhan river.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kim Ji-hoonb. 1971KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director
- Chae Ji-Hoonb. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean short track speed skater
- James Kyson Leeb. 1975KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean and American actor
- Kim Ji-hunb. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1981)
- Ju Ji-hoonb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Baek Ji-hoonb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Lee Ji-hoonb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1988)
- Shin Ji-hoonb. 1998KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and figure skater
- Park Ji-hoonb. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and singer, born 1999
- Kim Ji-hunb. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 2000)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 204 | #35,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21 | #35,667 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #6,480 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 18 | #6,912 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jihun?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒihən/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Jihun a male or female name?
- Jihun is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Jihun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 thousand people named 지원 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jihun?
- In Poland, the national register counted 18 people named Jihun in 2026, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Jihun compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Jihun is the 5th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jihun?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jihunThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jihun” — the 5th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.